Nowhere near a million.

They were neither moral nor a majority.
But boy howdy, the media loved to pretend otherwise!

They're not going to hell, they're already there.

About the American Family Association, from the Southern Poverty Law Center:

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/american-family-association

groups on earth.

ice cream by Ben and Jerry's. I REALLY wanted to try that one. They are vile. Just like their parent group.

Ben and Jerry's created a flavor and named it after the SNL skit. There are no actual "Schweddy balls" on the market, other than the ice cream flavor.

Not any more.

That’s a good thing.

I’ve never watched it and have no interest in it at all, but I’m glad they saw the light, so to speak.

And won't be coming back.

They call it a channel for women. Seems to me that probably 15% or more of their target audience is probably G/L.

Kind of a silly move to me.

but now they have 4 months of Christmas shows. They are so conservative they even bleap out words like "damn". I think they want to turn the clock back to the 1950s.

Hopefully whatever buffoon made this decision that caused this MASSIVE and completely self-inflicted shitstorm for them is shown the door.

Why in the world they didn't see this coming is mind blowing, but the power of people is great!

Link to tweet

Excuse me for calling BULLSHIT!!!

$$$$$$$$$$$

now they have African Americans throughout their movies. Heck even had some movies with AA as the lead actors. Hallmark channel is changing.

Money talks

I have friends who work for Hallmark in KC. It's usually a pretty welcoming place, especially for the lgbt community. That's why the decision to pull the ad surprised me.

The people calling for the the commercial to be taken off buy their wrapping paper at Walmart, their greeting cards at the Dollar Tree and keep their TVs on Faux “news” all day. Not really their customer base. At Christmas? Peak package, card and ornament time? They felt boycott pain FAST.

The company that ran the ad was going to pull all its advertising. That hurt.

Then the media backlash hurt as well. They made a wise decision to reverse, but no boycott had any influence on that.

perhaps the threat was enough? Especially when they realized, a Million Moms wasn't actually a large group.

I’m so glad they reversed course on this.

Zola had been a regular advertiser on the Hallmark Channel. They pulled all their other ads, and with them, the revenue. They said they'd never advertise on that channel again. They apologized only to mitigate the hit to their bottom line.

Wait, that's redundant. The GOP IS evil.

Those shows are so fake and the acting so terrible. Makes me want to gag.

I’ve never seen a single show there.

My GF liked it.

to shit on someone no matter how petty the reason.

Ah, the Internets!

they'll have to do a lot more than just saying
"i'm sorry, i'm really sorry, i know i shouldn't have done that" crap

then Hallmark

as much as we should have a civic govt to protect out rights, it may very well be that we need to, to paraphrase marx, let the capitalist beg to sell us the rope to hang them with.

There's really no excuse for a large company to be winging it on LGBTQ issues. They've had YEARS to form a policy and then stick with it, on either side of the societal divide.

Pulling ads, then changing their minds just makes it glaringly obvious that they're chasing after the largest market segment rather than taking a stand. I'd cancel my sub to Hallmark Channel, only I don't watch that dreck.

even know anyone that watches that channel, anymore, I do shop at their stores however. I think the advertisers didn't cross my mind, because it hasn't really worked with FOX, I'm happy it worked here.

They didn't say shit about Lori Laughlin and her ills and misdeeds, but two chicks kissing is wrong...

And I bet they aren't really lesbians, and not really getting married!

Talk about a nothingburger!


if you get upset about the ads, you really need to evaluate your value system, and consider the meaninglessness of your life.

on woman porn, hypocrites all of them.

That is what I call the overdose of sentimental bullcrap they program.

I am old enough to remember when Charlie Brown was new and rare!

The boycott never made sense anyway; for one thing, Hallmark has had a line of greeting cards celebrating same-sex unions since before same-sex marriage became the law of the land. They had already shown themselves to be a company that embraced all kinds of unions and families.
I’m glad they realized someone in the co. made a bone-headed decision for the network, and that they have apologized and are going to air the ad.

The boycott made perfect sense.

Maxwell House Coffee? Cheese Its? Lexus?

I googled it, it’s Zola. They got screwed that it took me this long to find out the company behind the ad after all these news stories. All I’ve heard is Hallmark.